An Open Letter to Taylor Swift: Or Why Folks Like Her Should Stop Dictating Rules for Folks Like Me

Here’s a quick tl;dr of what’s been going on lately in the music industry:

Apple’s coming out with a streaming media service, akin to Spotify Word got out that (apparently) Apple wasn’t going to pay artists during the three-month free trial Taylor Swift thought that wasn’t too cool, and wrote an open letter to Apple Apple responds with “OMG lolz yur so right TayTay!!!”

I have a background in music, and have a little knowledge on what the record industry is like and how it all works. I’m no...